Hello
My very first Pinephone became almost unusable a few days ago, some parts of the touchscreen no longer worked, I had to use a second Pinephone left as is, bought 2 years ago with Manjaro ARM KDE (Plasma Mobile) installed by default.
At first, I quickly realized that the battery couldn't be recharged. I tried to recharge it for hours but I had to use the battery of my first Pinephone to be able to power it on anew.
Secondly, I had no mobile data whereas my mobile operator is the biggest one in France and I was very surprised because I had mobile data support two years earlier with Manjaro and Phosh. I could call but the dialer was broken, I often had to reboot to make it work anew, I couldn't press keys during calls for audiotel systems (i.e "Press zero to choose this option" etc). The SMS barely worked, there was a problem of refresh, I had to restart Spacebar to see them. When I was receiving a call, sometimes it didn't ring, I only saw the dialog with "Accept" and "Decline" buttons. It was impossible to select a language for the system, I was stuck with American English (which is obviously not my mother tongue).
Thirdly, I tried to perform the system upgrade by using the GUI but after hours, the tasks remained stuck at 50% and then it complained about a corrupted package. Retrying gave the same result.
Fourthly, I tried to do it in command line with pacman, it started well but I got a black screen with a message talking about a broken session manager that became unreadable after a rotation of the screen. When rebooting, I just saw the KDE logo and it didn't go any further.
As it's Sunday, I can't buy a microSD card, nobody can contact me. The only suggested solution consists in buying one, which I will do tomorrow in order to install Tow-Boot and probably install a working Linux distribution. If anybody has a better suggestion in the meantime, it will be very welcome.
By the way, it's better than nothing, the first time I used a Pinephone, it was unable to boot whereas this second Pinephone was able to do a very few things.
My very first Pinephone became almost unusable a few days ago, some parts of the touchscreen no longer worked, I had to use a second Pinephone left as is, bought 2 years ago with Manjaro ARM KDE (Plasma Mobile) installed by default.
At first, I quickly realized that the battery couldn't be recharged. I tried to recharge it for hours but I had to use the battery of my first Pinephone to be able to power it on anew.
Secondly, I had no mobile data whereas my mobile operator is the biggest one in France and I was very surprised because I had mobile data support two years earlier with Manjaro and Phosh. I could call but the dialer was broken, I often had to reboot to make it work anew, I couldn't press keys during calls for audiotel systems (i.e "Press zero to choose this option" etc). The SMS barely worked, there was a problem of refresh, I had to restart Spacebar to see them. When I was receiving a call, sometimes it didn't ring, I only saw the dialog with "Accept" and "Decline" buttons. It was impossible to select a language for the system, I was stuck with American English (which is obviously not my mother tongue).
Thirdly, I tried to perform the system upgrade by using the GUI but after hours, the tasks remained stuck at 50% and then it complained about a corrupted package. Retrying gave the same result.
Fourthly, I tried to do it in command line with pacman, it started well but I got a black screen with a message talking about a broken session manager that became unreadable after a rotation of the screen. When rebooting, I just saw the KDE logo and it didn't go any further.
As it's Sunday, I can't buy a microSD card, nobody can contact me. The only suggested solution consists in buying one, which I will do tomorrow in order to install Tow-Boot and probably install a working Linux distribution. If anybody has a better suggestion in the meantime, it will be very welcome.
By the way, it's better than nothing, the first time I used a Pinephone, it was unable to boot whereas this second Pinephone was able to do a very few things.